From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597D22C37 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:26:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2017 04:26:17 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,459,1477983600"; d="scan'208";a="209525882" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.38]) ([10.237.220.38]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2017 04:26:16 -0800 To: Alejandro Lucero , dev@dpdk.org References: <1482243237-28625-1-git-send-email-alejandro.lucero@netronome.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <7902423c-7520-f624-c9ab-8b1335fb7ec9@intel.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 12:26:15 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1482243237-28625-1-git-send-email-alejandro.lucero@netronome.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] nfp: add support for new metadata api X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:26:18 -0000 On 12/20/2016 2:13 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > NFP is a smart programmable NIC and firmware is deployed for specific > system needs, like offloading OVS, vRouter, contrack or eBPF into the > hardware. This often requires to give metadata to the host within > packets delivered. Last NFP firmware implementations support richer > metadata api facilitating interaction between firmware and host code. > > Old way of handling metadata needs to be still there for supporting > old firmware. > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.